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but mitt romney. again, he shuts down a plant because it kills and now he's out there -- it is like he banned assault weapons when he was governor of massachusetts. and then running for president he's all for them because the nra is for them. >> there are so many flip-flops, this could be a huge flip-flop. it would be a huge story but there are just so many to choose from it is like take your pick on which one you want to get the most outraged about. >> bill: he makes john kerry look solid consistent all the way. we'll have a lot of fun. victoria jones from talk radio news will be with us as a "friend of bill." brad woodhouse one of our favorites, communications director for the democratic national committee will be along as well in studio. we'll talk to susan paige, the washington bureau chief for "usa today." hey, great line-up for you. but first... >> this is the "full court press." >> some other headlines making news for you on this thursday morning. carlos beltran got injured in the cardinals/gia
but mitt romney. again, he shuts down a plant because it kills and now he's out there -- it is like he banned assault weapons when he was governor of massachusetts. and then running for president he's all for them because the nra is for them. >> there are so many flip-flops, this could be a huge flip-flop. it would be a huge story but there are just so many to choose from it is like take your pick on which one you want to get the most outraged about. >> bill: he makes john kerry...
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mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit go bankrupt. >> bill: uh-huh. >> and romney knows he needs to deal with it. yesterday romney had three events, spoke about 25 minutes at each of them didn't say a word about the bailout or anything like that, and at each event any obama response was the auto bailout. and chrysler denies the claim in that ad that they are going to be sending jeep jobs to china. and portman introducing romney noted that he had supported the auto bailout when it happened and then made that whole pitch which is ultimately romney is better than you than obama. i think if it wasn't for the auto bailout romney would probably be ahead i
mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: james what is the romney campaign's response to the fact checking? >> they haven't spoken publicly about it. they have kept it very low-key, i think they hoped that no one would really notice. there is unquestionably damage done to mitt romney because of his opposition to the auto bailout. the obama campaign is aggressively running ads around romney saying let detroit...
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ryan said, mitt romney is a car guy. yeah, his father was the head of a car company, but he wanted detroit to die. >> to be fair mitt romney is a car guy. he has so many cars he needs an elevator for them. >> bill: and he said let me tell you about mitt romney he helped people who were injured in a car crash. and basically joe biden turned to him and said don't talk to me about car crashes, buddy. my wife and son were killed in a car crash. so ryan didn't have such a good night. anyhow, i thought it was great what do you say? 866-55-press. and all the reasoning could say was joe biden was smiling too much. you know why he was smiling? american people know why he was smiling, because every time joe biden smiled paul ryan was lying. that's what that smile said. let's talk about it at 866-55-press. >> announcer: stephanie miller. radio meets television. the "bill press show" now on current tv. ♪ [ male announcer ] you like who you are... and you learned something along the way. this is the age of knowing what you're made
ryan said, mitt romney is a car guy. yeah, his father was the head of a car company, but he wanted detroit to die. >> to be fair mitt romney is a car guy. he has so many cars he needs an elevator for them. >> bill: and he said let me tell you about mitt romney he helped people who were injured in a car crash. and basically joe biden turned to him and said don't talk to me about car crashes, buddy. my wife and son were killed in a car crash. so ryan didn't have such a good night....
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romney. i also think that paul ryan's inability to answer the hard questions about the budget, that the tax proposals he is making speaks again to the swiss cheese nature of their appeals answers they simply don't work. mitt romney has a problem. he went hard right. he has lost the middle. paul ryan is not a friend of mitt romney long term. paul ryan is for paul ryan. he is thinking about 2016. he has not gotten what he needed. >> before we go, i have one last question. >> yes. >> what about, you talked about paul ryan, this medicare argument, you know, do you think that seniors believe that this is only going to affect people under the age of 55 or do they not trust politicians enough to think they can't keep their hands off the medicare. >> i honestly don't know how to get my arms around how the seniors react. they understand that paul ryan is up to no good when it comes to his medicare proposal. they look at him you look at the response at aarp, the way the proposal is at the end of the da
romney. i also think that paul ryan's inability to answer the hard questions about the budget, that the tax proposals he is making speaks again to the swiss cheese nature of their appeals answers they simply don't work. mitt romney has a problem. he went hard right. he has lost the middle. paul ryan is not a friend of mitt romney long term. paul ryan is for paul ryan. he is thinking about 2016. he has not gotten what he needed. >> before we go, i have one last question. >> yes....
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mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: how about a little fact checking on that ad, judd? >> yeah. it is really, i think probably the most dishonest ad we've seen this campaign cycle. at least at the presidential level. >> bill: which is saying something, isn't it? >> it is saying something. is it it starts off right at the beginning when mitt romney says i have a plan to help the auto industry. and as it turns out he has no plan. there's nothing on his web site and actually reporters have followed up and they've said could you send us a copy of the plan. and there is no plan. no one's gotten anything. so i guess it is just the idea that -- saying you have a plan is more important than actually having a plan. >> bill: also when he says i have a plan for 12 million new jobs and we haven't seen the plan yet either. on the auto industry, it is kind of late after g.m. and chrysler are already back, right? already back on their feet making bigger profits than ever before and better cars than ever before. it is kind of
mitt romney will fight for every american job. >> romney: i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. >> bill: how about a little fact checking on that ad, judd? >> yeah. it is really, i think probably the most dishonest ad we've seen this campaign cycle. at least at the presidential level. >> bill: which is saying something, isn't it? >> it is saying something. is it it starts off right at the beginning when mitt romney says i have a plan to help the auto...
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romney ryan. romney ryan. romney ryan. there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> john: now this prompted a rather public mocking from joe scarborough. but i think it was an example of governor romney being a little stiff and trying to do some crowd work which isn't his specialty. i thought the governor took a bad rap on that one. what do you think? >> in that case, when morning joe showed the clip of it, they heard people chanting but you couldn't really quite make out what they were chanting. but morning joe added a subtitle to indicate that the crowd had been chanting ryan's name. and that -- which made it look like romney came in and said add my name, too which makes him look a little bit desperate. i was actually there at that event as were you know, 30, 40, 50 other reporters. almost all of us heard that the crowd was chanting romney. and he was -- it is still awkward. he still seems a little awkward. but it makes him seem a little less desperate. i pointed that out on "buzzfeed." wrote an item pointing that out. as did some conservative blogs a
romney ryan. romney ryan. romney ryan. there we go. all right. that's great. thank you. >> john: now this prompted a rather public mocking from joe scarborough. but i think it was an example of governor romney being a little stiff and trying to do some crowd work which isn't his specialty. i thought the governor took a bad rap on that one. what do you think? >> in that case, when morning joe showed the clip of it, they heard people chanting but you couldn't really quite make out...
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he was asked about mitt romney and whether republicans could trust somebody like mitt romney. snarlin arlen came through. >> the party has moved so far to the right you can't recognize mitt romney. what mitt romney will appear in october? bill said it exactly right. he said that mitt romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen. [ laughter ] >> that is so funny. >> bill: there's a line you could lose today or tonight. >> pornographic movie queen. that's an 82-year-old guy saying porn star. >> pornographic movie queen jenna jameson endorsed romney. we know they think alike. >> republicans are better for rich people. that's actually what she said. >> bill: now with the attempt to reinvent mitt romney or his attempt to reinvent himself you don't know where he stands on any issue. >> on gig. he is gumby. he has scaled so many fences, he could build a tree house from the splinters in his butt. he should say i'm mitt romney and i both approve and disapprove of this ad. >> bill: on abortion, he changed his position three times in two days. i'm going to over
he was asked about mitt romney and whether republicans could trust somebody like mitt romney. snarlin arlen came through. >> the party has moved so far to the right you can't recognize mitt romney. what mitt romney will appear in october? bill said it exactly right. he said that mitt romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen. [ laughter ] >> that is so funny. >> bill: there's a line you could lose today or tonight. >> pornographic movie...